What multiple of 17 are you? Starting today, for me the answer to that question begins with a 3.

And to think, it only took until my 51st birthday for me to realize that I share the same birthday as the Statue (or, as lawyers are wont to say, Statute) of Liberty. [Update: The original version of this post either contained a typo or else I was really intent on proving the point of the preceding parenthetical. In any event, thanks to those many readers who emailed to draw the typo to my attention.]Posted at 11:09 AM by Howard Bashman

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

"Constitution Check: Is Obamacare headed for new trouble?" Lyle Denniston has this post today at the "Constitution Daily" blog of the National Constitution Center.Posted at 11:07 AM by Howard Bashman

Update: As invariably happens once an error is observed here at "How Appealing," the official version of the concurring opinion has been corrected. The original version of the concurring opinion can be accessed here.Posted at 08:20 PM by Howard Bashman

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

"State Supreme Court ruling is win for Arneson, loss for Wolf": Jan Murphy of The Patriot-News of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania has this news update.

"States Lawyer Up, Looking To Find A Way To Buy Execution Drugs From Overseas; Texas, Ohio, and Arizona corrections officials all have hired private lawyers to try to find a way around the FDA, current law, and a federal court order in order to import execution drugs from overseas": Chris Geidner and Chris McDaniel of BuzzFeed News have this report.

"A Spark Delayed Ignites Into Late-Life Love": Online at The Hartford Courant, Ann Z. Leventhal has an essay that begins, "In 1958, when I was 22 and Jon O. Newman was 26, he debated William F. Buckley Jr. at Hartford's West Middle School."Posted at 09:10 PM by Howard Bashman

Monday, October 26, 2015

"Appoint special prosecutor in court email scandal": Former Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ronald D. Castille has this post today at the "Think Tank" blog of The Philadelphia Inquirer.Posted at 09:06 PM by Howard Bashman

"Saving our ignocratic republic: Can a book, even one endorsed by Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito, teach voters that Judge Judy doesn't sit on the Supreme Court? Or is it already too late?" Law professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds has this essay online at USA Today.Posted at 08:55 PM by Howard Bashman